24 college students were given the adult version of Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures Test and the Advanced Progressive Matrices (1962), Set II. Neither errors nor latencies on the Matching Familiar Figures Test were significantly correlated with scores on the Advanced Progressive Matrices. These data suggest that the relationship between intellectual performance and scores on the Matching Familiar Figures Test for college students is different than that relationship for children.
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